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Chapter 8: The Northern Renaissance Quick Check

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Question 1

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What did Jan van Eyck develop that gave his pictures a sharp and brilliant look?

a new kind of picture frame

a new kind of oil paint

a new kind of canvas

a new kind of paintbrush

Question 2

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Why did Albrecht Dürer make two trips to Italy?

to fight in a war

to marry into a wealthy family

to learn as much as he could from master painters

to sample delicious food and bring new recipes home

Question 3

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What did Albrecht Dürer excel at painting?

portraits, especially of himself

nature, especially waterfalls

fierce battles, especially ones with many soldiers

religious imagery, especially from stories in the Old Testament

Question 4

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What are woodcuts?

carvings on wood that can reproduce images with ink

special picture frames

notches made into a tree to show the passage of time

special oil pants

Question 5

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What is Bruegel best known for?

painting everyday people doing everyday things

painting heroic images of everyday people as pretty as they can be

painting vast, sweeping images of Greek myth

painting images of soldiers going to war

Question 6

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What type of portraits did Hans Holbein often paint?

portraits of peasants and everyday people

portraits of characters from Greek myth

portraits of children with their mothers

portraits of famous leaders

Question 7

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What did the leaders of the English Reformation ask Holbein to do?

create art that promoted the king as the new head of the Church

paint realistic images from the New Testament

create art that mixed religion and Greek myth

stop painting